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we're going to try to hold an obama nominee to a standard that president obama set. you laid it out correctly, that president obama, in the campaign, made a very very big deal out of the unethical immoral business of investing in the cayman islands. so you would expect -- you wouldn't expect him then to appoint somebody that did exactly the same thing that ends up making the president look hypocritical by nominating such a person who did exactly the same thing that they criticized governor romney for. >> being hypocritical in washington, that's certainly not very unique, i don't think, senator, right? i guess it's politics, the political season. i understand fully what you're saying, but you don't really have anything, right? no one is saying he even was a tax evader, just he did some of the same things that raised eyebrows during the election. >> unlike four years ago, we had several nominees from this administration that didn't pay their taxes. some paid their taxes and others withdrew their name. there's no charges against lew for that reason. but i think we do ha
we're going to try to hold an obama nominee to a standard that president obama set. you laid it out correctly, that president obama, in the campaign, made a very very big deal out of the unethical immoral business of investing in the cayman islands. so you would expect -- you wouldn't expect him then to appoint somebody that did exactly the same thing that ends up making the president look hypocritical by nominating such a person who did exactly the same thing that they criticized governor...
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. >> rick, 11,629 people go on food stamps each day. 31 million when obama came in. 47 million now. that's more than the population of spain, 47 million. we all want to help people that are needy. but it's probably not a good idea to create and add to the people that are needy and then feel virtuous about helping them. if policies were able to take -- the 16 million back off food stamps that are on now by giving them jobs, by instituting policies that give them jobs to where they're -- i mean it's so good to feel good on the front end about being virtuous about helping people that are needy but what if you're adding to all the people that are actually in need, steve? >> one statistic that summarizes it, sequester. everybody's talking about the sequester. if "the wall street journal" pointed out, the amount of money we're talking about for one year on the sequester's cuts is one-third of one percent of the 3.6 trillion that we would have if we had a budget. but that's the number. we can't -- one-third of one percent of our budget? oh, my god! if anybody thinks we're going to give tho
. >> rick, 11,629 people go on food stamps each day. 31 million when obama came in. 47 million now. that's more than the population of spain, 47 million. we all want to help people that are needy. but it's probably not a good idea to create and add to the people that are needy and then feel virtuous about helping them. if policies were able to take -- the 16 million back off food stamps that are on now by giving them jobs, by instituting policies that give them jobs to where they're -- i...
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president obama once again says he's going to seek to get new revenue to help bring down the deficit and specifically, he's now calling out carried interest tax breaks again. we'll see where that goes. plus, the story that everyone is talking about this morning, the ravens holding on to beat the 49ers in the super bowl after the lights went out for 45 minutes at the superdome. we're going to try to keep the lights on. "squawk box" begins right now. ♪ if you like it then you should have put a ring on it ♪ ♪ if you like it then you should have put a ring on it ♪ >> good morning, everybody. i'm becky quick along with andrew ross sorkin. joe kernen is on vacation today so we're joined by steve liesman. we're happy to have him here. our top story this morning, the market. we have assembled a trio of wall street's most respected voices to join us for the next hour. we have a lot to talk about this morning. plus, there is that issue of the lights going out at the super dole last night. officials say an abnormality in the power system triggered an automatic shutdown forcing backup sy
president obama once again says he's going to seek to get new revenue to help bring down the deficit and specifically, he's now calling out carried interest tax breaks again. we'll see where that goes. plus, the story that everyone is talking about this morning, the ravens holding on to beat the 49ers in the super bowl after the lights went out for 45 minutes at the superdome. we're going to try to keep the lights on. "squawk box" begins right now. ♪ if you like it then you should...
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and we got obama care. and obama care, when you look at the complexities in that plan, health care costs are going to go up, they're not going to go down. and you've got temporary workers to deal with. retail has got a hell of a problem. going from 35 hours a week to 30 hours a week for a temporary employee. if you've got 50 employees. you want 49. there's so many complexities in these two things. so my concern about acceleration, is regulatory. warren may have a different view of that. >> interesting thing is i agree with everything jack has said, but it's -- it's i don't come away as pessimistic as he does. but he's absolutely right about, you know, about what's happening with health care, and everything. i don't disagree with a word that he said. that he said. >> and i'm not pessimistic, warren. i'm not pessimistic. i just think we -- we're at a position where we could really take off if we had the right policies. >> yeah. well i -- i -- the interesting thing kind of is that america really is doing bette
and we got obama care. and obama care, when you look at the complexities in that plan, health care costs are going to go up, they're not going to go down. and you've got temporary workers to deal with. retail has got a hell of a problem. going from 35 hours a week to 30 hours a week for a temporary employee. if you've got 50 employees. you want 49. there's so many complexities in these two things. so my concern about acceleration, is regulatory. warren may have a different view of that....
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says, if we follow president obama's plan, the u.s. in 25 years will be in worse shape than greece is today. >> by the way, stan druckenmiller, he is going to become more publicly vocal. >> is he? >> yes, he is. because he feels strongly that this is just a rape of unborn children. it's -- it's generational theft on an enormous magnitude. i frequently, if i have to give a talk, i ask people, particularly if they're older like i am, i say to them if you had one meal left, and you had your grandchild with you, would you eat it or would you give it to your grandchild? they all say, i'll give it to my grandchild. guess what? they're eating their grandchildren's breakfast, lunch and dinner right now, and they haven't been born yet. this is going to happen. >> right. >> these are -- >> i think these are absolutely great points. i mean, our prior perspective on this has been the periods in when you get big bull markets on stocks, when p/e multiples go to 20, the '50s '80s and nineties, those occurred with stable monetary policy, government sp
says, if we follow president obama's plan, the u.s. in 25 years will be in worse shape than greece is today. >> by the way, stan druckenmiller, he is going to become more publicly vocal. >> is he? >> yes, he is. because he feels strongly that this is just a rape of unborn children. it's -- it's generational theft on an enormous magnitude. i frequently, if i have to give a talk, i ask people, particularly if they're older like i am, i say to them if you had one meal left, and...
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>> apoplectic. >> of the impact of obama-care on the job creation in this country. i'm not judging whether or not you're right or wrong but there's a sense out there. >> to seen see small companies -- >> to raise the cost of what it is to hire an employee, you will hire less of them. >> you are seeing small companies starting to talk about, i have 100 employees, do i break up into three llcs. you are going to have to deal with that sort of thing. that is going to happen and there are people that will be upset about know it. >> the other thing that makes people apoplectic, you kcan cac about health care and spending decelerating. the bottom line was about cost containment. it really wasn't, about coverage. when you look at the amount of me on the government will spend on health care the next ten years, it is higher on obama-care than otherwise. the cost of spending will go up. >> the cost of spending for the government. >> that was the mission. >> i apologize. i have breaking news with government spending. the post office. this is breaking news. the post office says
>> apoplectic. >> of the impact of obama-care on the job creation in this country. i'm not judging whether or not you're right or wrong but there's a sense out there. >> to seen see small companies -- >> to raise the cost of what it is to hire an employee, you will hire less of them. >> you are seeing small companies starting to talk about, i have 100 employees, do i break up into three llcs. you are going to have to deal with that sort of thing. that is going to...
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president obama had the courage to back him. and it turned out to be successful. in comparison, if i may say so, with what the europeans have done with their banks, where nobody knows what the numbers are, they apply a stress test that was meaningless and here we are some number of years later, they were still, and rightly so, enormous questions about many of the european banks. i think tim has done an excellent job. >> do you push for enough regulation? people look at compensation on wall street and say it's still too much. >> well i don't think that compensation was the purview of tim. you could argue about compensation one way or another and argue what role it played. that's an issue that the policy community is going to have to deal with going forward. but, it wasn't central to what he had to do. >> do you think compensation played a role? obviously the other critique on you has been that you were paid a huge amount of money, $100 million plus. no one's ever asked me and i was wondering if i could, did you get to keep all that money? a lot of it was in stock.
president obama had the courage to back him. and it turned out to be successful. in comparison, if i may say so, with what the europeans have done with their banks, where nobody knows what the numbers are, they apply a stress test that was meaningless and here we are some number of years later, they were still, and rightly so, enormous questions about many of the european banks. i think tim has done an excellent job. >> do you push for enough regulation? people look at compensation on...
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he's never going to leave barack obama very far. we talked to him about the state of the union, about its impact on some of the fights like the budget sequester. he said he's not sure that the sequester is going to happen or not, whether they're going to make a deal, but this is the single biggest opportunity he's got to make his case on why we need revenues as well as spending cuts. here is david axelrod on the significance of the state of the union to that effort. >> we have a standoff on these issues. this is the largest audience he's going to have. the goal is to move public opinion because that's what moves congress. i think some of the reasons we now see some moment on issues like immigration reform, for example, has to do less with what the president said and more with what the american people have said. >> i also talked to david about the attitude the president has shown since the election. he certainly had a little bit more spring in his step. some people say he's been cocky since that election, throwing a couple of elbows
he's never going to leave barack obama very far. we talked to him about the state of the union, about its impact on some of the fights like the budget sequester. he said he's not sure that the sequester is going to happen or not, whether they're going to make a deal, but this is the single biggest opportunity he's got to make his case on why we need revenues as well as spending cuts. here is david axelrod on the significance of the state of the union to that effort. >> we have a standoff...
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president obama has signed a debt ceiling suspension into law. the measure allows the government to keep borrowing to pay its bills. it puts off the next congressional battle over the debt ceiling until may. boeing is asking the faa for permission to resume test flights of its grounded 787 jet. it wants to test the batteries and other components in flight since certain conditions can't be simulated on the ground. the faa is evaluating boeing's request. >>> in wall street 2013 rally interrupted with a major averages suffering their worst one-day loss in a year on monday's trading. the last hour we spoke to goldman's jim o'neil about the prospects of making money in this market. >> i think to sell if you're a medium term player is probably not a smart move. but if you've made all the gains, to take some off the table isn't a crazy idea either. >> joining us now is nouriel roubini, chairman and co-founder of roubini global economics. you're not like a market master, maybe like a market jedi. plus andrew still here from fortune magazine. the one and
president obama has signed a debt ceiling suspension into law. the measure allows the government to keep borrowing to pay its bills. it puts off the next congressional battle over the debt ceiling until may. boeing is asking the faa for permission to resume test flights of its grounded 787 jet. it wants to test the batteries and other components in flight since certain conditions can't be simulated on the ground. the faa is evaluating boeing's request. >>> in wall street 2013 rally...
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austin didn't mention the obama-care tax or payroll tax or any of that. those are all headwinds, too. >> listen, i think the impasse in washington is just crazy right now. i am absolutely for not having the sequestration. it's just too blunt of an object. >> but the two sides have not been able to -- >> zero. >> no common room -- common ground. >> if you could cut 85 you wanted to cut? >> in a nanosecond. >> do you have 85 you want to cut? >> do i know it off the top of my head. i think you need to still hit the revenue side. you need revenues and spending to be that fly% differential, you have to get there. you need revenues up by 18%. >> do you get that growing or additional taxes? >> i don't want to use the word taxes and i'm not trying to -- i don't think we're talking about tax rates here. there are certainly revenue loopholes we could be closing. >> we're supposed to close those to lower marginal rates. >> but we didn't. >> simpson-bowles we were lowering marginal rates and closing loopholes. now, we raise annual rates and you close loopholes. >> it
austin didn't mention the obama-care tax or payroll tax or any of that. those are all headwinds, too. >> listen, i think the impasse in washington is just crazy right now. i am absolutely for not having the sequestration. it's just too blunt of an object. >> but the two sides have not been able to -- >> zero. >> no common room -- common ground. >> if you could cut 85 you wanted to cut? >> in a nanosecond. >> do you have 85 you want to cut? >> do i...
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president obama, holding a white house open data day hack-a-thon. today. joe had a different view of what a hack-a-thon was in the white house. but we'll bring -- >> bringing back gibbs and axelrod, and -- >> colleagues of yours. >> colleagues of yours. okay. we're going to continue on. the administration is inviting developers and tech experts to come share some ideas, hack-a-thons are common in the tech industry with the goal to figuring out creative solutions to problems you may remember facebook engineers celebrated their ipo by having a hack-a-thon. don't worry, jim. >> you got to love the name hack-a-thon, don't you? >> the fed minutes spooked investors on thursday. and our next guest took to twitter to offer his thoughts. joining us right now is bill gross. he is the co-cio founder and managing director at pimco and bill it's great to see you this morning thanks for getting up early with us. >> thank you, becky. i'm wide awake. >> we have been talking about your tweet all morning long. talked a little bit earlier just for anybody who didn't see it.
president obama, holding a white house open data day hack-a-thon. today. joe had a different view of what a hack-a-thon was in the white house. but we'll bring -- >> bringing back gibbs and axelrod, and -- >> colleagues of yours. >> colleagues of yours. okay. we're going to continue on. the administration is inviting developers and tech experts to come share some ideas, hack-a-thons are common in the tech industry with the goal to figuring out creative solutions to problems...